Corset-stay.



No. 869,797. I PATENTED OCT. 29. 1907.

H. M. MOOORMIGK,

CORSET STAY.

APPLIQATION FILED 00T.8. 1906.

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HUGH M. MeOORMIOlLOF ROYAL-OAK, MICHIGAN.

CORSET-STAY -Specifica.tion of Letters Patent. I

Patented Oct. 29, 1907.

Application filed October 8. 1908- Serial No. 3381 054.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, Huon M. McCoa nrcK, a citizen .of the United States, residing at Royal Oak, in the county of Oakland and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Corset-Stay, of which the following .the skirts. petticoats, and attached nether garments below; second, to improve the female figiire,-ari(l permit the wearing of various styles of garments designed to be worn with corsets.

It is a well-known fact. that many physicians deplore the use of the corset by women, condemning it chiefly because of its injurious pressure upon the abdomen, causing greater or less displacement of the viscera or parts thereof: being particularly injurious often, after child-birth, or illness causing weakness or displacement of the female internal organs.

My invention is specially intended to accomplish ,two ends; first, to assist the corset to lift the lower abdomen instead of depressing it, second to increase and assist the adaptability of the corset to improve the female form and to strengthen and support those parts of the lower abdomen which most require such assistance, for any reason. I attain those objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawing,

i n which-- Figure 1, is a front view of a female trunk showing a corset a in place, provided with my cotsut-stay (see dotted lines 1), (1, d,). Fig. 2, is a view of the right and left stays, the right perforated for attaching to the corset, the left unpcriorated, the stays outstretched flat,

, as they would appear were the corset opened fully from Similar letters refer to tached inside or outside if desired.

from; Fig. 3 is' a view illustrating the right stay curved into the form it should occupy in a corset, when fin position on the person. This is substantiallyits ent figures. The stay illustrated, is designed of fine spring steel, tempered to retain high elasticity under long and constant pressure. The winged ends 0 are built into the'hacks of the corset halves, right and left, the'stay coming forward, preferably across the waistline (though modifications of shape may sometimes bring it above or below) and terminating in the inward and upward dipping end d, preferably low in the front of the corset (though this ynby be modified at-Q need). The wingsv c are intendedto act as a fulcrum for the rest of the stay 1;, but particularly for the @0- ends. d, which are the points in the lower fronts oi the corset; which are designed to support or raise the otherwise depressed abdomen. 'The fulcrum c .is'

purposely widely distributed above and below the waistdine. in the back, in most instances (though this may be modified atneed) in order that'no point upon the wearers back suffer undue pressure.

In Fig. 3', the line rcx shows the contour oi the swelling abdomen relative to the position of the "stay, in a normal Woman. In Fig. 2, small perforations are shown, around the outer edge, in the right corset-stay;" these are for threading or sewing to the body of'the corsct.= There can be great latitude in the methodsof attaching; for instance: Different makers may be found to favor different modes of attaching the corset-stay in some or all of their corsets with the same ends and purposes in view. I I The design shown in the drawing is mine, but I am fully aware that there must be many modifications of form adopted to insure comfort to the figures of diiferent .80 women; therefore, l. :cover broadly the invention of a. corset-stay designed to support the lower abdomen and improve the figure, which stay. derives its fulcrum from itself, as herein described;

Therefore I claim: V

l\ corset .stay formed of spring material shapednnd constructed, lat its. front end, to impinge supportl ngly upon the abdornom, and to he fitted into'a corset beginning at or near one lower front extremity thereof; thence pussing outward and upward over the hip'at "or near the'waistline, and extending well into the rear central portion of the corset with the center of its rear extremity at-or near the waistline, said. extremity being provided with op poslteiy dlrected laterally extending fulcrumlc wings lntended and adapted to receive and distribute upon the back'of the wearer the strain imposed oil the fol-ward end by the abdomen, substantially as described.

- HUGH M. MCCORM1CK.

Witnesses:

l lowiiao G. WASn H. H. Heron. 

